All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

All is wholesome in the absence of excess.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.